Today's Opinions

It was important to learn last week that a grand jury in Shelby County found that two Shelbyville police officers showed proper judgment and had no recourse in their deadly confrontation with a teenager last fall.

We wish that the tragedy that spins around this horrible moment would have such a simple ending, but we don’t think it can.

We cling to the hope that the continuing debate also won’t have an equally tragic outcome.

It was important to learn last week that a grand jury in Shelby County found that two Shelbyville police officers showed proper judgment and had no recourse in their deadly confrontation with a teenager last fall.

We wish that the tragedy that spins around this horrible moment would have such a simple ending, but we don’t think it can.

We cling to the hope that the continuing debate also won’t have an equally tragic outcome.

It was important to learn last week that a grand jury in Shelby County found that two Shelbyville police officers showed proper judgment and had no recourse in their deadly confrontation with a teenager last fall.

We wish that the tragedy that spins around this horrible moment would have such a simple ending, but we don’t think it can.

We cling to the hope that the continuing debate also won’t have an equally tragic outcome.

Shelby County’s community hospital now has new ownership, and we’re glad at least that piece of the drama about the facility’s future is complete.

We don’t know what impact OneKentucky Heath System ultimately will have in Shelby County – and we remain concerned about that – but at least the merger processes surrounding its future are signed and, for the time being, sealed.

If you are serious about being re-elected, the door of opportunity has been kicked as wide open as the Montana sky.

This isn’t about your ideas for handling our continuing economic morass, the ever-threatening swagger of Iran, the everlasting war on terror in Afghanistan and ever however much you think we should spend on the military going forward.

Those are important, impervious issues, to be sure, but they’re not your real opportunity.

It was important to learn last week that a grand jury in Shelby County found that two Shelbyville police officers showed proper judgment and had no recourse in their deadly confrontation with a teenager last fall.

We wish that the tragedy that spins around this horrible moment would have such a simple ending, but we don’t think it can.

We cling to the hope that the continuing debate also won’t have an equally tragic outcome.

It was important to learn last week that a grand jury in Shelby County found that two Shelbyville police officers showed proper judgment and had no recourse in their deadly confrontation with a teenager last fall.

We wish that the tragedy that spins around this horrible moment would have such a simple ending, but we don’t think it can.

We cling to the hope that the continuing debate also won’t have an equally tragic outcome.

It was important to learn last week that a grand jury in Shelby County found that two Shelbyville police officers showed proper judgment and had no recourse in their deadly confrontation with a teenager last fall.

We wish that the tragedy that spins around this horrible moment would have such a simple ending, but we don’t think it can.

We cling to the hope that the continuing debate also won’t have an equally tragic outcome.